Uncle Ben! Politicians come and go, and time judges all. As I think of you at this moment, I think poise, honesty, transparency, decency, and heart. I wish you all the happiness in the world, and I've been honored and PROUD to have you as our first family.You inspired me to think of grace. Fact be known, michelle covered your narrow ass many a day. It's been good having your steady hand on the wheel, compadre. Kick em in the sand amigo, kick em in the sand.

Unusual circumstances as they may be. Was I the guy working his way out of the ghetto in NC? Young man cries. Hopefully we live in a state of grace. Shitty bus ride amigo, after many a long day. Fear for life. Fear for life. Technical term? Straight up dick! Kinda like my beach roaming.

suffer-cait wrote:This is when it'd be useful if sleepygamer still hung out.

*Groggily awakes from Internet slumber*

SecondTalon wrote:I can go yell at her. She might still listen to her Internet dad.

*Grumbles* Daaaaaaaad! I'm going through second puberty, I have to sleep a lot and act like a teenager and be grumpy again!

poxic wrote:Or she could just do the decent thing and come visit anyway. Because she loves us all so very much.

I do. I have been incredibly busy, what with moving out to live with girlfriend, taking lots of illegal drugs, and dealing with a terrible Internet provider who seems to deem it okay to charge us for shit that didn't happen.

SecondTalon wrote:NOPE INTERNET DAD YELLIN'!

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suffer-cait wrote:Did you facebook yell? I didn't see yelling on my feed.

It happened in a message! Private yelling.

Fractal_Tangent wrote:I miss sleepy.

I miss this place. And all of you! I really should integrate it into my Internet rotation much more!

Anyway, someone said something about metal? While I love metal, I haven't listened to a lot lately. My snugglemuffin isn't a big metal fan, so our days generally involve a lot more electronic music.

But I do make time for Cattle Decapitation, Decapitated (a theme emerges) Ihsahn, a lot of Devin Townsend / Strapping Young Lad, Fear Factory, Mastodon, Nekrogoblikon, Testament, Opeth, Skeletonwitch and Havok.

That's my usual rotation.

But! I have been listening to a lot of psytrance and neurofunk lately. Got really into that kind of thing. It can be pretty fun to groove out to when chilling.

My favourite metal for falling asleep to is probably Sunn O))) - Bathory Erezebet. Might be creepy for some, is relaxing to me.

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Missed you all.

phlip wrote:sleepy, the only thing you're worse at is being not awesome.*

No drama, little pissed.(that being drunk last knight) pine over my miss spelling you latte fart sniffers! Not you b... I can roll where the wild things are. Just stung a little...thought, WTF, hammered shit all the way here, Lil peace would be nice. Goes to show what a Chinese east coast bus ride can be. Cool folks to the left and right of me... Gonna miss ya dude. Don't care if it helped me, cared if it helped us. That's how I judged ya. Bent a few fenders, but ya passed with flying colors! Lol, I'm still drunk. Got a mahi tai with your name onl it! You should brief John McCain on our sacred honor. Integrity, it's that which inspires. I'm kissing a whales ass, ducks ass, and seals ass, while getting my b12 mango!

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I've been living life with this unstated assumption that most people's minds work basically the same in terms of how they think and so on. But based on how differently people actually behave and talk, I don't think that's justifiable.

There ought to be a way to eavesdrop on someone's internal monologue to figure this shit out.

I edit my posts a lot and sometimes the words wrong order words appear in sentences get messed up.

Has anyone ever added anything besides milk into their tea? I know the red teas sometimes uses coconut milk, but has anyone tried heavy cream? Seems like a good way to get milk fat without diluting the tea.

sardia wrote:Has anyone ever added anything besides milk into their tea? I know the red teas sometimes uses coconut milk, but has anyone tried heavy cream? Seems like a good way to get milk fat without diluting the tea.

I always use half & half. There is no other way. They didn't seem to know what that was in Sydney so I had to make my own. Heavy cream is a little overpowering and milk doesn't cut it.

There's a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you're self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn't so easy in a car, and you can't cover as much ground walking.

sardia wrote:Has anyone ever added anything besides milk into their tea? I know the red teas sometimes uses coconut milk, but has anyone tried heavy cream? Seems like a good way to get milk fat without diluting the tea.

I always use half & half. There is no other way. They didn't seem to know what that was in Sydney so I had to make my own. Heavy cream is a little overpowering and milk doesn't cut it.

Ice Cream.I've added Ice Cream to both coffee and tea,Because I had no milk and no sugar. It's ok.

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We are all in The Gutter.Some of us see The Gutter.Some of us see The Stars.by mr. Oscar Wilde.

Those that want to Know; Know.Those that do not Know; Don't tell them.They do terrible things to people that Tell Them.

sardia wrote:Has anyone ever added anything besides milk into their tea? I know the red teas sometimes uses coconut milk, but has anyone tried heavy cream? Seems like a good way to get milk fat without diluting the tea.

I always use half & half. There is no other way. They didn't seem to know what that was in Sydney so I had to make my own. Heavy cream is a little overpowering and milk doesn't cut it.

I'm a tea purist and object to adulterating it with anything like milk (which, imo was only ever necessary because we were shit at brewing tea an needed to the milk to cover the sins rather than just learning to brew it more like the Chinese do) but I've always wondered, what actually is half and half? I don't think we have it here in the UK so I've always been confused.

eSOANEM wrote:what actually is half and half? I don't think we have it here in the UK so I've always been confused.

Half cream, half milk, 100% perfection.

There's a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you're self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn't so easy in a car, and you can't cover as much ground walking.

(a) Description. Half-and-half is the food consisting of a mixture of milk and cream which contains not less than 10.5 percent but less than 18 percent milkfat. It is pasteurized or ultra-pasteurized, and may be homogenized.

eSOANEM wrote:what actually is half and half? I don't think we have it here in the UK so I've always been confused.

Half cream, half milk, 100% perfection.

Nuh-uh. Whole milk is perfection, buttermilk is a close second and there's no prize for third place and beyond.

I've long stopped pouring anything into a glass of tea, because I started liking the flavour of unadulterated green tea and the bitterness of most black teas. (if it's really bitter I'll add a bucket of sugar though)

eSOANEM wrote:what actually is half and half? I don't think we have it here in the UK so I've always been confused.

Half cream, half milk, 100% perfection.

Nuh-uh. Whole milk is perfection, buttermilk is a close second and there's no prize for third place and beyond.

I've long stopped pouring anything into a glass of tea, because I started liking the flavour of unadulterated green tea and the bitterness of most black teas. (if it's really bitter I'll add a bucket of sugar though)

I'd rather let a dollop of half & half cut the tannins down and only need a bit of sugar. Whenever I drink green tea it's always unadulterated.

There's a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you're self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn't so easy in a car, and you can't cover as much ground walking.

Also, TIL that clotted cream taste almost like butter because it IS damn near butter. (60% for those who don't click on links.)

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.- Albert Schweitzer, philosopher, physician, musician, Nobel laureate (14 Jan 1875-1965)

I haven't encountered the term 'single cream' anywhere in the US. There are stores that sell clotted cream though.

There's a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you're self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn't so easy in a car, and you can't cover as much ground walking.

Single cream and clotted cream are two very different beasts. I use single cream sometimes as a 'sauce' for pasta with bits of bacon and green beans. It's usually found as something to pour over desserts with a consistency of thick milk. Clotted cream you know of and is great with scones and jam.

When I was in the states I wanted to have creamy chicken with bacon and chicken and I couldn't find single cream anywhere. I was upset.

I feel like heavy cream would do the trick. That's what I use in curries that call for it (e.g. paneer makhani).

The Brit/Aus/Kiwi pronunciation of "Scone" is bananas. I wasn't sure what I was being offered at first.

There's a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you're self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn't so easy in a car, and you can't cover as much ground walking.

I learned it as "scahnn" from my not-really-Scottish-but-her-granny-was Mom. "Scohne" seems to be Americanish.

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.- Albert Schweitzer, philosopher, physician, musician, Nobel laureate (14 Jan 1875-1965)